Tag: Java

‘Spring Boot in Action’ can help you push aside the old drudgeries of configuring Spring applications – #programming #bookreview

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Spring in Action Craig Walls Manning – paperback If you have worked with the decade-old Spring framework, you know well that it has a long history of providing configuration headaches for developers. The new Spring Boot framework, on the other hand, literally brings much-needed simplification and automation to the process of using Spring. And it … Continue reading ‘Spring Boot in Action’ can help you push aside the old drudgeries of configuring Spring applications – #programming #bookreview

Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

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  Java 8 in Action Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft (Manning – paperback)  Java 8, we were sometimes assured, would just be Java 7 with a few slick new (or past-due) features added. Actually, now that it’s here, Java 8 represents “the biggest change to Java in the 18 years since Java … Continue reading Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

Scala for Java Developers – A practical guide to building apps and integrating code – #programming #bookreview

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Scala for Java Developers Build reactive, scalable applications and integrate Java code with the power of Scala Thomas Alexandre (Packt – paperback, Kindle)   The increasingly popular Scala programming language runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). And “Java and Scala stacks can be freely mixed for totally seamless integration,” Scala’s website proudly trumpets. The Scala … Continue reading Scala for Java Developers – A practical guide to building apps and integrating code – #programming #bookreview

Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

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Play for Java Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper (Manning, paperback)   “There are,” co-author Nicolas Leroux writes, ” many Java web frameworks, but most of them have a key flaw: they try to hide the web behind an abstraction layer, rather than embracing it. That is the most important difference between Play and most other Java … Continue reading Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring – (And a lot more!) – #programming #bookreview

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Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring Develop and deploy a high-performance Java web application using Ext JS and Spring Gerald Gierer (Packt Publishing paperback, Kindle) A powerful JavaScript web framework such as Ext JS deserves a powerful platform for enterprise desktop application development. Gerald Gierer delivers a good one in his well-crafted new how-to … Continue reading Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring – (And a lot more!) – #programming #bookreview

Gradle in Action – Had enough of Maven and Ant? Try this powerful Java build tool – #programming #bookreview

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Gradle in Action Benjamin Muschko (Manning, paperback) Apache Maven and Apache Ant are perhaps the two best-known and most widely used Java build tools. But Gradle is gaining users and aficionados ( if, indeed, there can be “fans” of software build tools). And this well-prepared new book likely will help Gradle achieve even wider acceptance … Continue reading Gradle in Action – Had enough of Maven and Ant? Try this powerful Java build tool – #programming #bookreview

Rapid Android Development – Using Processing to build apps fast – #programming #bookreview

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Rapid Android Development Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing Daniel Sauter (Pragmatic Bookshelf – paperback) The main goal of Daniel Sauter’s nicely written new book is to help you learn “how to develop interactive, sensor-based Android apps” quickly. At first glance, you may question how “quickly” you can go through 13 chapters with a total … Continue reading Rapid Android Development – Using Processing to build apps fast – #programming #bookreview

Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr – A new how-to guide – #bigdata #java #bookreview

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Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr Learn new ways to build efficient, high performance enterprise search repositories for Big Data using Hadoop and Solr Hrishikesh Karambelkar (Packt – paperback, Kindle) This well-presented, step-by-step guide shows how to use Apache Hadoop and Apache Solr to work with Big Data.  Author and software architect Hrishikesh Karambelkar does a … Continue reading Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr – A new how-to guide – #bigdata #java #bookreview

Making Java Groovy – An excellent how-to guide for Java developers – #programming #bookreview

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Making Java Groovy Kenneth A. Kousen (Manning, paperback) I have looked at a lot of programming how-to texts in recent years, and this is one of the best I have encountered. Kenneth A. Kousen does not try to get readers to abandon aging and bloated Java in favor of a language that’s sleeker, shinier and … Continue reading Making Java Groovy – An excellent how-to guide for Java developers – #programming #bookreview

OpenGL ES 2 for Android – A fine quick-start guide for new developers – #android #programming #bookreview

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OpenGL ES 2 for Android A Quick-Start Guide Kevin Brothaler (Pragmatic Bookshelf – paperback) Yes, the timing might seem a bit strange, releasing an OpenGL ES 2 book in early July, 2013, barely a month before the August release of OpenGL ES 3. However, OpenGL ES 3 is backward-compatible with OpenGL ES 2. And the … Continue reading OpenGL ES 2 for Android – A fine quick-start guide for new developers – #android #programming #bookreview